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There were a lot of tie-ins with Enterprise and some with the reboot movies (meeting the NX-01 under Captain Pike at the end). The reboot movies also mention ENT (particularly it comes up near the end of Star Trek Beyond). I suppose we are to percieve this as a new cannon, probably breaking from the original timeline during the Temporal Cold War. Although things seemed to resolve nicely in ENT, there must have been permanet alterations (losses to Xindi, etc). The premise of the first reboot Star Trek movie further establishes that the timeline can be and has been irreperably altered.
The thing is, despite how interested I am in Star Trek and its cannon, I don't really care all that much. I'd be just as satisfied if they never tried to explain--in-universe--changes that were made for practical, real-world reasons (refreshing the look of the series, updating characters backgrounds, etc). For reasons I cannot understand, the creators--and many of the fans--seem bent on forcing all the different shows and movies into one coherent universe. Seems like a waste of effort, but then again if this timeline undoes the events of TNG, DS9, and VOY (especially VOY), they actually have a chance to do it.